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For it is really better for us not to know a thing, because [God] has not revealed it to us, than to know it according to man’s wisdom, because he has been bold enough to assume it.

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Nothing that is God’s is obtainable by money.
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God Money
Nature is schoolmistress, the soul the pupil; and whatever one has taught or the other has learned has come from God – the Teacher of the teacher.
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Nature Soul Teaching
The first reaction to truth is hatred.
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Hate One Liner Reaction Truth
Patience is God’s nature.
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God Nature One Liner Patience Religious
The state of faith allows no mention of impossibility.
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Faith Impossible
A holy woman may be beautiful by the gift of nature, but she must not give occasion to lust. If beauty be hers, so far from setting it off she ought rather to obscure it.
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Beautiful Lust Religious
The nature of rumor is well known to all. It was your own poet who said: ‘Rumor, an evil surpassing all evils in speed.’
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Nature Poet Rumor
He who flees will fight again.
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Fight Himself Run
Can we not live without pleasure, who cannot but with pleasure die?
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Death Philosophy Pleasure
Woman is a temple built over a sewer.
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Temples Women
We say, and we say openly, and while ye torture us, mangled and gory we cry out, “We worship God through Christ!” Believe Him a man: it is through Him and in Him that God willeth Himself to be known and worshipped.
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Believe Himself Men Religious
Truth persuades by teaching, but does not teach by persuading.
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Deep Inspirational Philosophy Teaching Truth
Out of the frying pan, into the fire.
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Fire Food
I believe BECAUSE it’s impossible.
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Atheist Believe Religion
Discipline is an index to doctrine.
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Discipline One Liner
You cannot parcel out freedom in pieces because freedom is all or nothing.
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Freedom Pieces

For it is really better for us not to know a thing, because [God] has not revealed it to us, than to know it according to man’s wisdom, because he has been bold enough to assume it.

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For it is really better for us not to know a thing, because [God] has not revealed it to us, than to know it according to man’s wisdom, because he has been bold enough to assume it.

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